The court rejected the immunity of the civilian investigators "Abu Ghraib".

District Court of Virginia rejected a Pentagon contractor company CACI International Inc. to provide immunity from prosecution on charges of torture in Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib ", the Associated Press.
The decision will allow the four former prisoners who were released without charge, to begin legal proceedings against the company, civilian specialists who were employed by investigators under contract with the U.S. Army. Former inmates accused CACI employees of torture and harassment of detainees in the prison investigation.
CACI lawyers insisted that the employees performed their duties in accordance with the requirements of the U.S. government. Moreover, in their opinion, the court did not have all the necessary information to make objective decisions, as part of documents and testimonies related to state secrets, and the other part of the "hidden in the fog of war."
Federal Judge Gerald Bruce Lee (Gerald Bruce Lee) has decided that CACI has not provided any evidence that the practice of ill-treatment of prisoners was imposed on its staff to the leadership of the Pentagon. In the case of providing such evidence, the court could decide the case in favor of the company, he said.
World izvestnosttyurma "Abu Ghraib" acquired in 2004, after publication in the media photographs of abuse of American troops on prisoners. The investigation and subsequent trials, many soldiers have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
The charges were brought and then against the civilian specialists working in the jail under contract, including investigators and against CACI. But then the company's lawyers failed to prove their innocence, none of the civilians had not been convicted.
Attempts to prosecute members of CACI does not expire until now: in one trial only city of Alexandria, Va., dozens of pending cases against the company's specialists, who are accused of multiple crimes while working overseas. In addition to the case of participation in torture, the company still needs to be protected from allegations of fraud in numerous human rights violations in the hiring of foreign workers in the sexual harassment to management hired to work abroad for women.
The company CACI employs about 12 thousand people, it provides services in the field of security and intelligence agencies in the formulation and implementation of activities to combat terrorism. About 70 percent of employees have access to state secrets.